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Renée T. Coulombe is a musician, scholar, and entrepreneur of considerable breadth. Her work has been performed across the United States, Europe, and Oceania at notable venues from the Viper Room in Los Angeles to Roulette in New York, the Bimhuis in Amsterdam to the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena. She has pieces available on the Everglade and Open Space labels as well as her own, Banshee Mediaand is currently touring internationally with a new concert-length work for piano and digital media, Sympathetic Resonance (2016).

Her critical writings have been published in books, anthologies, and journals, with topics ranging from feminism and race in Punk and Blues, postcolonial analyses of Drum and Bass, sonic hauntology in televisual media, improvisation and collective performance in post-techno EDM praxis. She presents regularly as artist and scholar at conferences and festivals around the globe both as invited and peer reviewed presenter. From 2000 until 2010 was an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of California, Riverside, where she taught graduate and undergraduate theory and composition courses. There, she also founded and directed the UCR Free Improvisation Ensemble, and produced an international improvisation festival (2004), a Digital Arts Network Research Exchange (2007) and the UC Institute for Research in the Arts’ annual conference/festival Demonstration (2008). She was a founding member of the genre-bending free funk band Erroneous Funk (Los Angeles) in 2001, and in 2004 she created the Adaptable Girl digital performance collective.

In 2010 she founded Banshee Media as the parent company for her print and online streaming publishing of critical and artistic content, including a podcasting network. In that year she also founded the production collective Improvised Alchemy to sustain long term collaborative, transmedia, improvisative performance events across borders, genres and disciplines. Dr. Coulombe maintains a brisk solo touring, presentation and residency schedule at Universities and artistic institutions around the globe. Also a designer of sustainable and eco-friendly art clothing and accessories for many years, her designs are available through her shop: Banshee House of Make at Etsy.com. This network of companies engages head on the nexus of new media technologies and developing modes of distribution, creating collaborations across cultures, disciplines, genres and industries.